Rudolf Blaumanis memorial museum
Rudolf Blaumanis
Rūdolf Blaumanis, who was born in Cēsu to a musical family, became one of Latvia's foremost writers and poets. He attended his local parish school with four other boys and a goat! In 1872, he moved to a private school in Ogre where he realised that all he wanted to do was write.
He wrote over 100 stories as well as poems and plays, the most popular of which is Purva bridejs (1898), a story that has been dramatised and made into a film. Other works from his pen include Weed, Thunderstorm, Raudupiete, Bertula pirksts, Frost in Spring, Purva bridejs, Andriksons, In the Shadow of Death, Indrani, In Fire, The Lost Son and Skroderdienas Silmacos Rūdolf Blaumanis once lived at Alberta iela 12, where a museum to his memory has been established.
